Packer files to build rancher bootstrap OVA using vsphere-iso

This builds a simple Ubuntu 18.04 OVA or QCOW2 (WIP) with a K3s Server and Helm-3 installed.

Upon booting form these images you should have a functional Helm and a running K3s single node cluster.

NOTE To run remotely, you'll need to download /etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml modify the IP Address and you can use it for your kubeconfig and issue commands remotely.

In the spirit of automation, I'm considering adding a web-server to easily pull the config; this could also be used to automate scaling out more nodes.

Requirements

Tested with: Packer version 1.5.5 Linux

to vSphere 6.x
vmWare Workstation for Linux MacOS
to vSphere 6.x
vmWare Fusion

Build an image

Use make, and select your build platform:

ova-local

Builds an OVA on your local machine using VMware Workstation, Player, Fusion etc

ova-vsphere

Builds an OVA on a remote vSphere cluster. Requires modifications to the variables in the k3s-server.json file

qcow2

Not implemented yet, but will enable building a qcow2 for use by KVM

Possible additions

Add vbox support?